On Tue 21 Sep 2004 15:43, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First I'd like to thank all who donated to TPF: a shiny new 12" > Powerbook G4 ran the presentation in Belfast. Thanks to Allison bringing > it with her and to TPF. > > The speed comparison of b2.py was done with an unoptimized Parrot build. > Turning on --optimize gives 0.35s vs 0.6s (Parrot vs Python) on that > Powerbook. > > A first patch enabling the pipe open on OS X is already in CVS. > > Bernd "the vaxman" will have a look at Parrots VMS port.
And he has a brand new Itanium OpenVMS machine which the perl community can use for testing. Parrot and Perl5 smokes. > A french teacher is using Parrot for teaching assembly language. > > A guy from India (whos name I didn't get) is gonna doing his master > thesis on implementing Java on Parrot. Nice addition: this guy doesn't like java at all :) > Thanks to all organizers of the conference, > leo -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.3, & 5.9.x, and 809 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, 11i, AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0, and Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://archives.develooper.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] send smoke reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], QA: http://qa.perl.org
